Fastening device for shoes



July 24, 1928.

K. SCHUTZ FASTENING DEVICE FOR SHOES Filed Oct. 18, 1927 Patented July 24, 1928.

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Application filedOctober 18, 1927. Serial No. 226,863.

This invention relates to fastening deices for shoes and more particularly to such devices which may be used as a substitute for the ordinary shoe lace. As is well known, considerable time is required to lace ordinary shoes and an expedient which would do away with the necessity for lacing shoes obviously represents a decided improvement in the art.

The object of this invention is to provide a shoe fastener, made of metal or any other suitable material, which will obviate the necessity for laces and which may be readily and quickly operated to securely close the uppers of a shoe.

The desired result isattained by providing two metal plates hinged at one extremity and provided with a slider to move in the slots to draw the metal plates together and clamp them in closed position when the slider has reached the extremity opposite the pivot. The metal plates, of course, are securely fastened to the upper of the shoe.

This and other like objects are accomplished by the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a partof this disclosure, and in which s Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe showing my device thereto.

Figure 2 is a plan view of my device in closed position.

Figure 3 shows the device in open pos tion.

Figure 4 is a plan view of one of the metal plates.

Figure 5 is a cross sectional view ofthe fastening device.

Figure 6 is a cross sectional view taken on line 66 of Figure 4.

Figure 7 is a cross sectional view taken on line 7-7 of Figure 4.

Figure 8 is a cross sectional view taken on line 88 of Figure 3.

Figure 9 is a perspective view of a high shoe having the device applied thereto.

Referring to the drawings, the shoe 10 is shown having fixed to flap 11, the plate 12, which plate has a slot 13 and fixed to the flap 14 is a plate 15 which has a slot 16, the plates 12 and 15 having notched edges 17 and 18 bordering the respective slots and in these slots, the clamping member generally shown as 19, is free to move.

Referring to Figure 3, the device is shown in open position with the clamping member 19 near the lower extremities of the plates, which extremities are hinged together by means of a pin '20. Each plate is provided with a series of apertures 21, which may be used to accommodate rivets or threads for attaching the plates to the shoe flaps.

As represented in Figure 3, the device is shown in an open position and when the wearer has placed the shoe upon his foot and desires to close the flaps, he pulls upon the clamping member 19, which has a wedging action upon the plates 15 and 12, thus drawing them together and causing them to rotate above the pivot 20 and when the clamp 19 has reached the uppermost part of the slots 16 and 13, the handle portion 22 of the clamp is rotated downwardly to produce a binding action to hold the clamp in the raised position and consequently to hold the flaps securely fastened.

The plate 12 is formed in two parts, as shown in Figure 4, so that it may be adjusted as to width. This adjustment is accomplished by sliding the part 24 beneath part 23, the pins 25 sliding in the slots 26.

lVhen the desired width is obtained, the pins 25 are bent tightly against the plate 24, so as to hold the two plates in engagement, the pins 25 being made of a flexible metal capable of being bent and are carried by the part 23. The part 24 has fastened thereto a latch member 27, which may engage the depression 28in member 23, or the slot 29 inmember 23, to securely hold parts 23 and 24 in either of the two positions.

The device, herein presented, clearly provides a convenient means for readily closing the flaps of a shoe and also a means which may be cheaply and easily manufactured.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that a simple device for this purpose has been disclosed in the preferred form of its embodiment, the device being readily adaptable for use in Oxford shoes as well as high shoes, for either men, women or children.

Having thus described my invention, what I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

A fastening device for shoes consisting of two metallic strips hinged at one extremity, said strips having longitudinal slots, a clamping member slidable in said slots to draw the plates together when the clamping member is moved into a, position opposite the hinge, and means to fix the plates to the flaps of a shoe, one of said plates being formed in tWo parts and provided I with means for selectively adjusting the Width of the plate. In Witness whereofI have aflixed -1ny signature.

KONRAD SCHUTZ. 

